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Nessus posted:So what I'm seeing here is a real growth opportunity for cheap, effective anti-scrying methodologies and some way to deal with or make friends with Those Outside so that we can easily construct abundant cheap housing. Our real bottleneck is going to be wizards. Maybe it's time we start a system of schools... There was that game about a fantasy world experiencing a magic crystal-internet information revolution, with the premise that the players would be fantasypunk hackers and I assume, Fight the Power. Didn't seem to be too well received though?
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PoontifexMacksimus posted:There was that game about a fantasy world experiencing a magic crystal-internet information revolution, with the premise that the players would be fantasypunk hackers and I assume, Fight the Power. Didn't seem to be too well received though? Isn’t that another one by the SIGMATA guy?
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Kai Tave posted:Most of my knowledge of Catalyst's dysfunction as a company centers around things like embezzlement, stiffing freelancers, and poor management, not so much bigotry, so this might be an instance where they are the reasonable ones for once. They generally can only be convinced to give a poo poo about their work for about two weeks per year, one of which is GenCon.
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Lumbermouth posted:Isn’t that another one by the SIGMATA guy? Yeah, if they're talking about Cryptomancer then it's Sigmata guy, so "fight the power" is actually "fight the power but not in any way that matters, or the authorities find you and wizard nuke your town" because Chad Walker loving sucks. Lynx Winters fucked around with this message at 07:41 on Jun 5, 2023 |
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Cryptomancer is a game about slavishly observing best practices for encrypted email exchange and public key cryptography designed to teach the importance and means of cryptographic protocols to programmers. It doesn’t let you win against The Man, and if you screw up even once a wizard nukes your town, because those are the constraints cryptosystems operate under: the government will not go away, your cryptosystem will not bring down the government, and if you screw up even once it’s an unrecoverable disaster. Interesting approach to didactic gaming, kinda boring fantasy TTRPG unless you’re really into managing your public and private keys when passing secret messages along between the player characters.
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Kai Tave posted:So it turns out the mods of the big Battletech subreddit were caught out deleting posts related to LGBT and Pride when Catalyst put out a Pride-related anthology, then people started digging up receipts that they've been doing this sort of thing for a while while letting things like Nazi paintjobs on minis slide. The whole subreddit got locked down because of "brigading," they started banning people, then Catalyst went and created a new Official Battletech subreddit in response. somewhat tangential to the issue, but reddit, presumably in preparation for an IPO, has recently revamped its policies for API access. Specifically, the charges that they're going to be asking from people will be far in excess of what would be reasonable to shoulder the most visible casualty of this is the Apollo app, used as a replacement for the default reddit app on mobile devices, whose operating costs would spike into the millions of dollars given the number of API calls that the app would need in order to work properly the other large casualty of this app is pushshift, which is used as a tool for advanced searches (or even basic searches) of reddit's posts and comments I bring this up because it's very difficult, if not impossible, to find deleted and hidden and removed posts without pushshift, and it's possible that uncovering what the battletech mods were doing would have been far more difficult if these tools weren't available (and mods acting in good faith will also have a harder time doing their jobs rooting out bad actors without it) tying this back to TRPGs, but /r/rpg and /r/dndmemes (among many others) have announced that they're going to be joining in a form of online protest on June 12th against this new reddit policy
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Not just searching for deleted posts but nearly all mods of high-population subreddits use third-party tools for moderation because Reddit’s default tools are dogshit.
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Hey all! I launched my TTRPG last year after a long Kickstarter. I'm ready to try and actually push it a bit now. Does anyone have any recommendations for sites/folks I could send review copies to?
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TheDiceMustRoll posted:Someone on youtube uploaded this pretty recently, it's a news report about dnd from the very early 1980s and shows some people playing DnD (in formal wear, lol) but the game looks both very fun and it's also very nice to see that "uhh whatever minis works" was always a thing, having Not! Darth Vader show up was a nice touch. I liked that despite playing some weird-rear end version of DnD that looks more like a modular tiles dungeon crawler. I think probably that's just a dude with an office job in 1979 england playing at the local game store after work I couldn't help but notice how the only woman in the video was filmed looking bored, not doing anything in the game, and wasn't interviewed.
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Leperflesh posted:I think probably that's just a dude with an office job in 1979 england playing at the local game store after work  She probably was but this news thing is just filler crap in lieu of actual news
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Oh for sure. I don't know how old you might be, but I was just barely around at the end of that era of newscasting and people who are under like 40 might not realize just how much time was given to The News back then. A given story could stretch on for like five full minutes, and I'm not talking "election coverage" I'm talking "there was a house fire in a big city today". They were also doing a lot less editing, which I would guess was more labor intensive and expensive back then. There was far, far less competition for TV news, particularly I think in the UK which had like... four channels? BBC 1, BBC2, ITV, Channel 4 went on air in 1982 as Britain's fourth network in the same year it got its first satellite channel. So people would just watch whatever they put on the news, they didn't have much option to flip to something else. So yeah absolutely just filler content, but also something probably a lot of people saw.
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Leperflesh posted:Oh for sure. I don't know how old you might be, but I was just barely around at the end of that era of newscasting and people who are under like 40 might not realize just how much time was given to The News back then. A given story could stretch on for like five full minutes, and I'm not talking "election coverage" I'm talking "there was a house fire in a big city today". They were also doing a lot less editing, which I would guess was more labor intensive and expensive back then. There was far, far less competition for TV news, particularly I think in the UK which had like... four channels? BBC 1, BBC2, ITV, Channel 4 went on air in 1982 as Britain's fourth network in the same year it got its first satellite channel. So people would just watch whatever they put on the news, they didn't have much option to flip to something else. Yeah. Interesting they didnt talk to the lady. I wonder if she declined.
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Glazius posted:So now that this episode is publicly available, anybody want to talk about the system, at least as it was presented to us? I've got some opinions about : A stamina system is an intriguing proposition, but I am a bit concerned that it wouldn't work well with a PbtA type game. There's definitely room to explore that as a resource in a combat-focused game where careful resource planning matters. Actually, the Japanese Dark Souls TRPG rules were recently translated in full and they have a stamina dice system for combat: quote:In battle, time progresses in units called “turns”. PCs have 5 dice called “Stamina Dice” which As far as the inferred rules for this Tears of the Kingdom game... I wonder if the PbtA type format was used primarily because it's fairly "hackable" without accidentally loving up the game math, or if the more permissive communal sharing attitude around the "rights" to the game was a less hairy aspect to engage with than D&D 5e's rules? If there's enough buzz around this, I could see them genericizing the setting and releasing it as some small "one shot" splat on their storefront.
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Satire Without Purpose Will Wander In Dark Places is a very long deep dive into Warhammer 40K, it's history and how corporate blandness made it is what it is today. Chapter (?) titles: quote:Incident at Outpost Talavera I guess ultimately they are going to be bought out by Disney or something.
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Comstar posted:I guess ultimately they are going to be bought out by Disney or something. And that just makes me picture Disney looking at the smoking wreck they've made Star Wars into, and maybe selling it back to Lucas or something, and wondering what they're gonna do for sci-fi now, and then some coked up suit glances at his kid's collection and goes "Guys... I have an idea..."
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Warhammer's always been a bad parody- if the objects being parodied are things people want to buy in droves, you're not really doing a very good job of it.
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Comstar posted:Satire Without Purpose Will Wander In Dark Places is a very long deep dive into Warhammer 40K, it's history and how corporate blandness made it is what it is today. This is well-written and makes for a relatively concise summary of the issue with 40k's "satire." Thanks for posting it.
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I find it somewhat comforting that when I went to a local warhammer store opening that the people that showed up (aside from the majority of them being white men) were exactly the kind of people that wiki secondaries like Arch and worse seethe about daily. Nearly a third of them were women, a good chunk of them were PoCs, lots of my fellow rainbow mafiosos wearing pride pins and bracelets and everything else and GW's staff were extremely kind and good all day. I saw tons of people be like "oh I'm not sure it seems really daunting and intimidating" and being welcomed with open arms. Guys teaching people how to paint, free of charge, just for fun. Lots of teaching games being played. Even most of the people there were super welcoming, I met friends, exchanged numbers, and I've already played two games with the new people I met there a couple weeks ago. These fashy losers don't fit in anywhere in the hobby except online, where they get an enormous reach with other losers. They'll do anything to convince you they're the majority but that isn't the case(this is partially the fault of clout-seeking twitter people who feel the need to help boost the reach of these people in the algorithm by reacting to every single braindead tweet these idiots make). Most of them are secondaries, who just play the video games and for a lot of them it's "played", as in, not since the second Dawn of War(2009). Maybe Space Marine (2011). Otherwise it's memes and lore videos to fap to endlessly, no model painting, no games being played, just an endless cottage industry of racists pretending Warhammer is something it's not. Some dude on /tg/ was saying they'd never put Bretonnian characters in WFRP due to the fact that its "no longer pc" to put social classes in games and Brets are all about social classes, at which point someone informed him that "social class" is literally an important mechanic in the game, that people will respond accordingly to you based on your class, that you can ape other classes usually by having nice clothes and expensive accessories etc etc etc and finished his post by asking the dude if he'd ever even read WFRP before and the guy just called his responder a pedophile in response. They don't care. Being told to gently caress off didn't make them leave. Being told to gently caress off again didn't make them leave, they barely listen to a thing games workshop says or does because they don't engage with the hobby in any way that's real. They do watch a lot of fan lore videos however!
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Warhammer--by way of Warcraft ripping them off, I think--is already the default aesthetic style of every lovely fantasy video game in existence, and I want it to go away forever.gradenko_2000 posted:somewhat tangential to the issue, but reddit, presumably in preparation for an IPO, has recently revamped its policies for API access. Specifically, the charges that they're going to be asking from people will be far in excess of what would be reasonable to shoulder
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TheDiceMustRoll posted:They don't care. Being told to gently caress off didn't make them leave. Being told to gently caress off again didn't make them leave, they barely listen to a thing games workshop says or does because they don't engage with the hobby in any way that's real. They do watch a lot of fan lore videos however! That sort of thing occurs in many hobby spaces. Let me tell you about historical reenacting, for example.
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Cessna posted:That sort of thing occurs in many hobby spaces. Let me tell you about historical reenacting, for example. I have a friend who is high up in the SCA in the UK who basically has a part time job of dealing with hateful regressive pricks.
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I talked to a German reenactor who said they had to make sure they weren't letting in people who were excited about the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest for the wrong reasons.
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TheDiceMustRoll posted:They don't care. Being told to gently caress off didn't make them leave. Being told to gently caress off again didn't make them leave, they barely listen to a thing games workshop says or does because they don't engage with the hobby in any way that's real. They do watch a lot of fan lore videos however! Nazi Punk gently caress Off hopefully leads to Always Punch Nazis eventually.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:I talked to a German reenactor who said they had to make sure they weren't letting in people who were excited about the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest for the wrong reasons.
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https://toybook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/UDCv.MillerComplaint.pdf Upper Deck is suing Ravensberger and Ryan Miller, claiming Ryan Miller designed Lorcana for them (as "Rise of Ikorr"), then took the game to Ravensberger and made it Lorcana.
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3 Action Economist posted:Seems bold to go up against Disney, but then maybe they're hoping Disney will just settle it by buying the IP for too much money. Not suing Disney.
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CitizenKeen posted:Not suing Disney. Of course not, Disney wouldn't have any knowledge of the prior ownership of IP or anything. Ravensberger was contracted by them to make a gae, that's all they cared about. But they're still an interested party. I suppose they could just bury Ravensberger and tell Upper Deck to make the gaem instead.
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Comstar posted:Satire Without Purpose Will Wander In Dark Places is a very long deep dive into Warhammer 40K, it's history and how corporate blandness made it is what it is today. This is well worth reading, thanks for the link.
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3 Action Economist posted:Of course not, Disney wouldn't have any knowledge of the prior ownership of IP or anything. Ravensberger was contracted by them to make a gae, that's all they cared about. It may be something that gets determined in discovery. But I would imagine you want to delay looking the Mouse
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Nuns with Guns posted:Actually, the Japanese Dark Souls TRPG rules were recently translated in full and they have a stamina dice system for combat: I've been reading this, and it looks pretty cool. I did made a semi-automated google sheet character sheet, but the one thing I don't understand is how enemy attackng works. It looks like they don't get the same sort of choices with reserving stamina dice. The book says PCs need 5 dice, but the GM only needs 1-2. So do they only attack with 2 dice and always have 2 to defend with? I can't find anything searching online.
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TheDiceMustRoll posted:I find it somewhat comforting that when I went to a local warhammer store opening that the people that showed up (aside from the majority of them being white men) were exactly the kind of people that wiki secondaries like Arch and worse seethe about daily. Nearly a third of them were women, a good chunk of them were PoCs, lots of my fellow rainbow mafiosos wearing pride pins and bracelets and everything else and GW's staff were extremely kind and good all day. I saw tons of people be like "oh I'm not sure it seems really daunting and intimidating" and being welcomed with open arms. Guys teaching people how to paint, free of charge, just for fun. Lots of teaching games being played. Even most of the people there were super welcoming, I met friends, exchanged numbers, and I've already played two games with the new people I met there a couple weeks ago. 1d4chan is the perfect crystallization of this, where they've essentially hallucinated their own idea of 40k and codified it. Lamuella posted:I have a friend who is high up in the SCA in the UK who basically has a part time job of dealing with hateful regressive pricks. It's a whole thing. The SCA has a rampant missing stair problem concentrated in the combat reenactors, and an organizational setup that both only picks leaders through combat and gives them actual organizational power. Combine that with a board of directors in the greater org that both assigns its own successors and is in no way actually accountable to the membership, and the stickjock mafia is a real thing, and real problem. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 06:23 on Jun 12, 2023 |
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Liquid Communism posted:1d4chan is the perfect crystallization of this, where they've essentially hallucinated their own idea of 40k and codified it. 1d4chan users are super-bad at reading in general, and understanding the symbolism and subtext that is text specifically, but real good at coming up their with own symbolism and subtext that actually isn't in the text. Also, randomly bigoted.
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Liquid Communism posted:1d4chan is the perfect crystallization of this, where they've essentially hallucinated their own idea of 40k and codified it. You'd think they'd be happy with how things shook out. I mean, GW has sandblasted away the satire and codified that the Imperium are the Good Guys Actually but I guess mentioning that they have minorities is a bridge too far.
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Dawgstar posted:You'd think they'd be happy with how things shook out. I mean, GW has sandblasted away the satire and codified that the Imperium are the Good Guys Actually but I guess mentioning that they have minorities is a bridge too far. I am pretty ignorant about this type of media literacy, so I am just spitballing and tell me if I'm full of poo poo here: I wonder if the issue* is satire in the age of fandoms. Sure, singular satires are misinterpreted or misunderstood even in their time, but maybe it's the continual decades-long expansion of works into elaborate universes that strains any allegory to the breaking point. Perhaps the laws of narrative start to take over and direct the trajectory, often away from the satirical nature. Perhaps success under capitalism means broadening your base out to people who don't get subtext. I have not read them, but by reputation it seems like some satire/parody series like Discword are targeting different things every time, which might mean the element remains unmuddled. *: Obviously the issues are the Nazi fucks
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No Child Left Behind did a lot of damage to the humanities in public education
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3 Action Economist posted:Of course not, Disney wouldn't have any knowledge of the prior ownership of IP or anything. Ravensberger was contracted by them to make a gae, that's all they cared about.
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Reddit ain't exactly a TG company - but it's central to a lot of the broader hobby community. Most(?) subreddits including a lot in TG spaces (like r/Gloomhaven, which I help moderate) have gone dark in protest of the company's decisions to kill 3rd party apps. https://lifehacker.com/why-your-favorite-subreddits-are-going-dark-on-june-12-1850521188
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Dawgstar posted:You'd think they'd be happy with how things shook out. I mean, GW has sandblasted away the satire and codified that the Imperium are the Good Guys Actually but I guess mentioning that they have minorities is a bridge too far. I just thought of something that blew my mind. The Emperor's Greatest Success was not the Primarchs, or the Space Marines, or creating a 10000 year old Fascist Authoritarian Nightmare. It was convincing the vast majority of people in our universe who know about 40K that he is right and his methods are the one and true way.
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Comstar posted:I just thought of something that blew my mind. You're in too deep!! You can't tell reality from fiction anymore gently caress!!! It's just like that tom hanks sewer movie
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